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M.Notkin. Gentlemen, make your mistakes!
International master Maxim Notkin comments some games of his September collection.

M.Notkin. September best: Kramnik – Morozevich
Our columnist IM Maxim Notkin presents the results of experts' voting for the best game played in September 2007.

M.Notkin. Sir G.Thomas Passion
International master Maxim Notkin comments some games of his collection of the best games played in August 2007.

M.Notkin. August Best: Alekseev – Wang Yue
Our columnist IM Maxim Notkin presents the results of experts' voting for the best game played in August 2007.

M.Notkin. Best Games of August
M Maxim Notkin presents his collection of the best games played in August.

M.Notkin. Black Misfortune
Our columnist Maxim Notkin comments some games of his collection of the best games played in July 2007.

M.Notkin. Best in July: Tiviakov – Eljanov
IM Maxim Notkin presents results of the experts' voting for the best games played in July 2007.

M.Notkin. Best Games of July
M Maxim Notkin presents his collection of the best games played in July.

M.Notkin. Knight's choice
Our columnist IM Maxim Notkin comments some of the best games played in June.

M.Notkin. Best in June: Shirov – Ivanchuk
Our columnist IM Maxim Notkin presents results of experts' voting for the best game played in June.

Maxim Notkin. Symptoms of Rook Madness
IM Maxim Notkin comments some of the best games played in May.

M.Notkin. May best: Morozevich – Ivanchuk
Our columnist IM Maxim Notkin presents results of experts' voting for the best game played in May.

M.Notkin. April Window to Europe
A review of the best games played in April is prepared by our columnist IM Maxim Notkin.

Maxim Notkin. April best: NAJER – NEVEROV
Our columnist IM Maxim Notkin presents results of experts' voting for the best game played in April.

Best Game 2006: Topalov - Aronian
IM Maxim Notkin sums up expert voting for the best game played in 2006. Also, top three games are commented.

M.Notkin. Best Games of April
IM Maxim Notkin offers to evaluate best games played in April.

M.Notkin. HEAD-ON AND OFF THE CUSHION
Review of the best games played in March is prepared by our section head IM Maksim Notkin

GAME IVANCHUK - MOROZEVICH BECOMES THE LAUREATE OF MARCH
International master Maxim Notkin concludes the expert voting for the best game of march.

M.Notkin. Best Games of March
IM Maxim Notkin offers to evaluate best games played in March.

M.Notkin. Long Trunks
A review of the best games played in February is prepared by the host of the section IM Maksim Notkin.

M.Notkin. Who’s Afraid Of The Queens Exchange?
All the games that won the highest degree of approval from the experts had already been discussed in the Web. As usual it fell to my lot to go into the works of the "lighter entertainment" nature. Let's begin with a long and elegant combination carried out by the youngest GM in the world.

M.Notkin. The best game of February
The columnist IM Maxim Notkin presents the best games of February

Best game of January - Shirov-Radjabov
International master Maxim Notkin concludes the expert voting for the best game of January.

M.Notkin. The best game of January
International master Maxim Notkin concludes the expert voting for the best game of January

The best games of December
M.Notkin : The best games of December

14 best creative achievements of November
The columnist IM Maxim Notkin presents 14 best creative achievements of November to the experts and readers’ estimate.

Peter Svidler and Andrey Belozerov become September’s laureates
Maxim Notkin concludes the expert voting about the best game of September.

M.Notkin. The best game of October
The best games of October

M.Notkin. The best game of September
The columnist IM Maxim Notkin presents The best game of September

The best game of August: Zvjaginsev – Zhang Pengxiang
International master Maxim Notkin concludes the expert voting for the best game of August..

VICTOR TOPOROV. A PARADOX OF THE MATCH
It is not easy to classify the Topalov-Kramnik match. Is it a world championship match? But such tag is usually associated with a match between the champion and the contender, who qualified (ideally) through the championship cycle.

M.Notkin. Unbearable Heaviness of Rook
Hot guys fought hard in the heat of July. And, to be accurate and consistent, hot girls fought, too. Some experts noted that the selection is generally not very impressive, but I will try to annotate it to reverse that impression. There is something curious in each of the encounters above.

The best game of July: Pelletier - Volokitin
International master Maxim Notkin concludes the expert voting for the best game of July.

MAXIM NOTKIN. HEAT IT UP
International master Maxim NOTKIN comments selected games played in June.

Rublevsky-Mamedyarov becomes the best game of June
Maxim NOTKIN concludes the June best game voting.

Maxim Notkin. Treasures of the Island of Freedom
As usual, my review features games that are not very well known to the Russian-speaking reader. Strangely, the encounter Morozevich-Moiseenko, which won our April contest, also falls under this category. As far as I concerned, it hasn`t been deeply analyzed neither in chess magazines and newspapers nor on the Internet. However, I consider it wrong placing the masterpiece among lighter works. Maybe one of our experts will take the responsibility of discovering all the subtleties of that game. And so far I am pleased to present you a mixture of foreign melodies.

Topalov-Anand becomes the best game of the year!
The voting for the best game of the year 2005 by the e3e5 website version is now concluded. We nominated the games that had taken top three positions is our monthly lists. Some experts decided to mention other games, which in their opinion deserved being included in top 36 at least, for instance, Ponomariov’s win over Topalov in Sofia or a glorious draw Anand-Topalov from the same tournament. Maybe we will change the regulations in future, although each of the nominated games entered the top 10 of at least one expert.

Tigran Petrosian and Evgeny Bareev become the March laureates
International Master Maxim Notkin concludes the March best games voting.

Maxim Notkin. Two February laureates
International Master Maxim Notkin concludes the expert voting in February.

Maxim Notkin. Spicy dessert
International Master Maxim Notkin reviews the best games played in January.

M.Notkin. Topalov-Aronian becomes the best game of January
For a second year in a row I realize that carrying out a January best game contest is not an easy task. In February most regular members of our expert committee participate in the Aeroflot open, then travel to Cappelle la Grande, and so on. I did not want to disturb participants of the coming Women’s World Championship on such an unimportant although pleasing occasion, too. Finally, my call was heard by Evgeny Gleizerov, Alexander Motylev, Emil Sutovsky, Mikhail Kobalia, Evgeny Najer, Sergey Soloviov, Ilya Odessky and Vladimir Barsky. Legitimacy of voting of this jury is doubtless.

Beyond comparison in December: Motylev – Bareev
Alexandra Kosteniuk, Evgeny Gleizerov, Mikhail Kobalia, Emil Sutovsky, Sergei Soloviov, Ilya Odessky and also Sergei Ivanov and Sergei Klimov, whose eloquence will relieve me of the duty of presenting encounters-nominees by myself, participated in the summing up the last month of the passed year’s results.

Game of the Month summary: Svidler-Kasimjanov is October's laureate
Maxim Notkin sums up the results of expert voting in October.

GAME OF THE MONTH - SEPTEMBER. Ukrainian borscht with pampushkas
Maxim Notkin annotates the best games of September. Added to the "Creativity" section.

GAME OF THE MONTH - AUGUST. August special
Maxim Notkin annotates the best games of August. Read in the section "Creativity".

Game of the Month summary: Ivanchuk-Volkov wins in September!
Maxim Notkin sums up the results of Sempember voting. Added to the "Creativity" section. The report with annotated games to follow shortly.

PEARL OF THE DAY №15: BEING POLITICS FREAKS…
Maxim Notkin concludes his world championship column by providing a sketchy outline for the future.

PEARL OF THE DAY №14: DON PERLO FROM ARGENTINA
14th issue of Maxim Notkin's "Pearl of the Day"

PEARL OF THE DAY №13: MAINTAIN THE DISTANCE
Our tired columnist analyzes the critical part of the penultimate round draw between Anand and Morozevich.

PEARL OF THE DAY №12 : CAPRICES OF WEAK-SIGHTED LADY
Maxim Notkin features the 12th round game Leko-Anand. Added to the "Competitions" section.

PEARL OF THE DAY №11: WHERE WILL MY PRANKSTER GALLOP?
Maxim Notkin writes about two games of the 11th round: Adams-Topalov (briefly) and Anand-Kasimdzhanov (in detail). Read in the "Competitions" section.

PEARL OF THE DAY №10 : ANALYZE THAT, COMPARE THIS
The Sicilian encounter Kasimdzhanov-Polgar is analyzed in the 10th issue of "Pearl of the Day.

PEARL OF THE DAY №9: A GOOD START THAT ENDED IN NOTHING
The 9th issue of "Pear of the Day" features a marvellous game played between Svidler and Kasimdzhanov.

PEARL OF THE DAY №8: WHO WILL DARE TO HURT OUR KING?
IM Maxim Notkin presents the Adams-Svidler and Kasimdzhanov-Morozevich games.

PEARL OF DAY №7: SAVIELLY, YOU ARE NOT RIGHT!
Maxin Notkin on Morozevich-Anand.

PEARL OF DAY №6: AS WITH GREENHORNS
By the middle of the tournament the participants have worked out the optimal format...

PEARL OF THE DAY №5: PEARL BARLEY, SIR!
Maxim Notkin returns to Anand's spectacular opening win against Adams, and analyzes the critical position in detail.

PEARL OF THE DAY №4: LINARES HIRES LAWYERS
IM Maxim Notkin writes about Rustam Kasimdzhanov's sensational victory over Vishy Anand.

PEARL OF THE THIRD DAY: TIGER PULLED BY WHISKERS, LION WITH OPEN JAWS, INSURGENT DRAGON
The third issue of Maxim Notkin's "Pearl of the day" features Polgar-Kasimdzhanov game.

PEARL OF THE DAY №2: CAME, SAW, GAMES ENDED IN A DRAW
The second issue of Maxim Notkin's "Pearl of the day" features Topalov-Anand - the longest game of the second round. Added to the "Competitions" section.

PEARL OF THE DAY: SEINING PEARLS
The first issue of IM Maxim Notkin's column "Pearl of the day"

M.Notkin. Beauty will save the world
The games considered here were played by 12 chess players from 11 countries in 6 different places on our glorious planet, which is teared apart by political, national, ecological and interpersonal contradictions. Beauty will save the world. Amen! The review begins.

E.Sutovsky - V.Kramnik - the best game of July
Consideration and rating of the games of July was done with the help of Alexandra Kosteniuk, Evgeniy Najer, Alexei Bezgodov, Sergey Soloviov, Ilya Odessky, Vladimir Barsky and also Sergey Ivanov and Nikita Vitiugov, whose eloquence I will rest on frequently and with pleasure in suming up.

M.Notkin. SUMMER TIME, AND ...
IM Maxim Notkin annotates the best games of June.

M.Notkin. Drinking May tea
IM Maxim Notkin makes the survey on the best games played in May.

M.Notkin Best Games of April
IM Maxim Notkin makes the survey of the best games played in April

The game Topalov – Anand becomes May's Laureate
IM Maxim Notkin reviews the best games that were played in the chess world and appraised by experts in May 2005.

April’s Laureates Moiseenko – Svidler
IM Maxim Notkin reviews the best games that were played in the chess world and appraised by experts in April 2005. Until the end of May you will read an analysis of the best masterpieces and a detailed survey of all candidate encounters of the month.

M.Notkin. The artists are not only grandees (part 2)
IM Maxim Notkin reviews the best games of March.

M/Notkin. The artists are not only grandees (part 1)
IM Maxim Notkin reviews the best games of March.

The game A.Dreev – L.Dominguez becomes the March laureate!
The international master Maxim Notkin sums up the results of experts’ voting in defining the best games that were played in the chess world during the March of 2005. Till the end of April visitors will have an opportunity to read the survey of all the candidate games of this month.

The game A. Grischuk - A. Dreev becomes February's laureate!
IM Maxim Notkin concludes the expert voting for the best games of February.

February's best games
Our columnist IM Maxim Notkin presents 18 best games of February

The game Ponomariov-Kramnik is the best one in January!
IM Maxim Notkin sums up the results of the experts' polling for the purpose to determine the best games, played in the chess world in January 2005. Until the end of February our readers will acquaint themselves with an analysis of the best works and also with a thorough review of all of the games-pretenders of the month. And already in the first ten days of March a new February list will be published and such a scheme will be held to constantly, every month.

The best games of January 2005
Procedures of selection of games that were described in my opening address are finished.With such tournaments as Wijk-aan-Zee one of the main difficulties is not to fall under the magic of names.